SPICED NUTS

1 large egg white
1/4 cup sugar
1 t salt
1/2 t chile powder
1/4 t ground allspice
1/2 t ground cumin
1-3/4 t cayenne pepper
2-1/2 cups pecan halves or assorted nuts such as cashews, walnuts or almonds

Heat oven to 300.  Beat egg white until soft and foamy.  Combine all remaining ingredients except nuts; whisk into egg white.  Stir in nuts until well coated.  Spread mixture in single layer onto an ungreased baking pan.  Bake nuts for 15 minutes.  Then remove from oven.  Using a metal spatula, toss, stir and separate nuts.  Reduce oven temperature to 250 degrees and return nuts to bake until medium brown, about 10 minutes.  Remove from oven.  Toss and stir again.  Place baking pan on wire rack to cool.  Break up any nuts that stick together.  Stoer in an airtight container up to two weeks.  Makes 2-1/2 cups.

All I can say is this is super tasty!  If I make up a batch of these, they're gone!  I've made this recipe at least 3 times since I first tried it.  It's a keeper!

APPLESAUCE COFFEE CAKE

2-1/2 cups flour, sifted
3/4 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 t salt
2 t nutmeg
3/4 cup oil
1 cup applesauce
1 t soda
1 egg
2 t cinnamon
1 cup walnuts, chopped

Preheat oven to 350.  Stir flour, sugars, salt and 1 t nutmeg together.  Add oil.  Reserve 1 cup of the mixture.  Add applesauce, soda, and egg to flour mixture.  Mix thoroughly.  Put into ungreased 13x9x2" pan.  Combine cinnamon, walnuts, and reserved nutmeg.  Add to reserved mixture.  Sprinkle over applesauce mixture.  Bake for 25 to 35 minutes.  Yield:  12 to 15 servings.

I loved this, and it's super easy.  I like it when you just quickly mix everything together and then dump into a baking dish that doesn't even need to be greased.  This is extra good warm out of the oven with some Cool Whip on top